Hello Richard, thanks for the response and explanation. adil
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 04:51:27PM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Adil Hasan <paradox2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I would like to add sqlite to a workflow. But, I cannot directly open the > > database in C using the filename as the application I'm using places a > > layer > > inbetween the filesystem and my workflow. I can open the file with > > a command from the middle-layer and get a file descriptor. Is there a way > > that I can just pass the file descriptor to the open command instead > > of the database filename? > > > > No. The SQLite transaction control and recovery mechanism depends on > knowing the filename. So you cannot open an SQLite database file by > passing just a file descriptor. > > Theoretically, if the file were immutable and known to be in a consistent > state (it does not need recovery because the last writer did not crash) > then it might be possible to open an SQLite database read-only using just a > file descriptor. But no mechanism exists to do this at the current time. > > > > -- > D. Richard Hipp > d...@sqlite.org > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
